Porn may be 28,000 years old

Archeologists have found a series of drawings on the roof of caves in the inaccessible wilderness in Arnhem Land, in the country’s north, which clearly shows a couple having sex.

Other sections of the wide-ranging artwork in white and red shows other figures engaged in some form of prehistoric porn, the Daily Mail reported.

Archeologist Bryce Barker, a professor at the University of Southern Queensland, said - irrespective of the rather racy subject matter above - its what he and his team has been finding underneath the erotic art that ranked among rock art sites such as France’s Chauvet caves, dated at older than 30,000 years, and caves in northern Spain now thought to be 40,000 years old.

One section of artwork they have excavated, a stone with patterns drawn in charcoal, has been dated to 28,000 years old - making it one of the oldest artworks in the world.

“One of the things that makes this little fragment of art unique is that it is drawn in charcoal... which means we could directly date it. The fact remains that any rock art that is older than 20,000 years is very unique around the world,” Barker said.

“It is amongst some of the oldest art in the world. And we’re convinced that we’ll find older and the reason is that the site this comes from, we know that Aboriginal people started using this site 45,000 years ago,” he added.

The find was made at a massive rock shelter named Narwala Gabarnmang, which is covered on its ceiling and pillars with rock art, and only accessible by a 90-minute helicopter journey from the outback town of Katherine.

Archaeologists were first taken to the site five years ago by its Aboriginal custodians, the Jawoyn, who wanted to preserve the art and at the same time unlock some of the secrets of its history.

“We’ve only excavated a tiny fraction of the site and we expect there will be art older than 28,000 years in the site,” Barker said.

He added that the fragment, which likely fell from the rock’s ceiling shortly after it was drawn and therefore preserved in the soil, could have been part of a human figure drawn in action, such as throwing a spear.

Aboriginal rock art is dotted throughout the vast nation, much of it undocumented, and some have speculated that the images could date back 45,000 years.